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By MATT PIKE St. Joseph Post With an excess amount of personal protective equipment, the United Way of Greater St. Joseph is inviting other non-profits to come and get it. United Way President Kylee Strough says the United Way will have face masks, sanitizer, and small hygiene items to give away tomorrow. "Some of these items are things United Way has procured throughout COVID and we've been distributing all along," Strough tells KFEQ/St. Joseph Post. "We then got a donati...

Photo provided by the St. Joseph Youth Alliance By MATT PIKE St. Joseph Post The St. Joseph Youth Alliance is providing safe beds for babies, to promote safe sleeping habits. Youth Employment Program Director Anita Jolly says the program helps provide portable cribs as well as pack and plays to young families. Jolly says it's important to create a safe sleeping environment. . . "There are a lot of instances of infant deaths from suffocation, or you know co-sleeping with a parent, im...

By MATT PIKESt. Joseph PostPositive cases of COVID-19 continue to stay low as the Buchanan County positivity rate continues to fall.St. Joseph health officials report only 38 new positive cases of COVID-19 in their latest report. Officials saw 12 new cases on Friday and 26 cumulatively between Saturday, Sunday, and Monday.The Buchanan County positivity rate has dropped by 5.31% to 8.01%.Andrew County health officials report only seven active COVID-19 cases and only one in the last seven days on ...

By MATT PIKESt. Joseph PostAt its regularly scheduled meeting on Monday, the St. Joseph Board of Education approved the appointments of six administrators for the 2022-23 school year. Five of the six appointments are promotions for individuals currently serving the district. One of the appointees will join the district from out-of-state.Bart Hardy the Assistant Principal at Lafayette has been appointed principal. He will replace Ashly McGinnis who was selected as the Assistant Superintendent of ...

By BRENT MARTINSt. Joseph PostMissouri state Sen. Tony Luetkemeyer says he's a bit frustrated with the General Assembly that it hasn't approved legislation requiring photo identification to vote.Luetkemeyer's frustration stems from the fact that when the Missouri Supreme Court struck down the former voter photo ID law, it outlined a path by which the legislature could craft a constitutional law."They pretty much told us what they thought the legislature got wrong in the prior...

Sen. Roy Blunt/file photo By BRENT MARTIN and MATT PIKESt. Joseph PostMissouri United States Sen. Roy Blunt suggests President Biden waited too long to put sanctions in place against Russia.Blunt, during a stop in St. Joseph, says sanctions might have been more effective if enacted when Russian President Vladimir Putin amassed 130,000 troops, plus military equipment, along the border of Ukraine."There should have been some penalty, in my view, then and I supported that then," Blunt tel...

By BRENT MARTINSt. Joseph PostSt. Joseph police are investigating a shooting in the 24-Hundred block of Angelique Street.The St. Joseph Police Department reports it received a call around 7:30 Sunday night about a shooting in the area. When officers arrived, they found no one in the area. There is no indication that anyone was shot.No suspect or suspects have been arrested. The investigation continues.

By BRENT MARTINSt. Joseph PostMissouri Gov. Mike Parson has appointed the president of Rippling Water Farms in DeKalb to the Clean Water Commission.Mark Pierce has been Rippling Water president since 2013 and has owned and operated his farm since 1977. Pierce has served on the FCS Financial Board of Directors since 2002 and has been the Vice Chairman of the Board since 2012.Pierce also serves on the Farm Credit Council Board of Directors and has previously served on the Weston Missouri Levy Dis...

Nomad Trails, Riverbluff Trail/file photo By BRENT MARTINSt. Joseph PostA new and different bridge project is underway in St. Joseph.It's a bridge project that will connect Wyeth Hill and the Missouri River bluffs in north St. Joseph, expanding what is becoming an attractive hiking and biking trail.St. Joseph City Manager Bryan Carter has high hopes the Highland Avenue pedestrian bridge project will become a real attraction for the city."Having seen some of the photos of the initial wo...

By MATT PIKE St. Joseph Post The St. Joseph Safety and Health council is expanding its driver's education to Platte County. Executive Director Sheldon Lyon says the council began its new driver education program here in St. Joseph four years ago. "And it's doubled in size," Lyon tells KFEQ/St. Joseph Post. "And we saw that some of the students that were enrolling were from Platte County and in order to give more students from our local area those spots, we decided to ...